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With the Pope’s remarks on capitalism, I wonder how O’Reilly will comment on it? I mean Palin already accused Pope Francis of being a Liberal. The Pope is more Pro-Life than the Republicans. The Church is also against the Death Penalty.

The Teen torture industry, nominally a privately funded “rehabilitation” industry, was more concerned with the money than actually, you know, helping people get back on track.

I know a woman who survived the High Impact “School” at Tecate, Mexico, having been sent there by her father because she got caught having sex with her boyfriend when she was 15. You want to know what they called Waterboarding? “Baptismal”. Only they used it as a form of punishment. Get caught looking out a window? Baptismal. Get caught speaking to a person of the opposite sex? Baptismal. They were going to shove the love of JayZuzz down the kid’s throats if they had to kill, rape or hogtie them to it, which did in fact happen many times.

You White-Horse hero Mittens was right in the middle of it, and his campaign finance managers in several States were the same people running these “schools”. A LOT of money was made, and a lot of that ended up in the hands of the GOP and various Republican candidates for office around the country, and they had full knowledge of where it came from.

That is the Conservative movement in a fucking nutshell. Money is the Boss. Money talks. Money talks first and foremost, and if you don’t have money, shut the fuck up or we’ll torture you and kill you to teach you who is Boss. Because if you don’t have any money, you are worthless to them except as a labor resource or a channel for government money to the people who control the message.

I just spent 15 minutes on my local health care exchange and realized that I could save a couple hundred dollars a month on my family’s insurance. Of course, I live in Washington State, which has a very competitive market, a superbly functioning website and no Koch-brothers-sponsored saboteurs trying to discourage people from getting health care.

It’s hard to remember a time when a major political party and its media arm were so actively rooting for fellow Americans to lose. When the first attempt by the United States to launch a satellite into orbit, in 1957, ended in disaster, did Democrats start to cheer, and unify to stop a space program in its infancy? Or, when Medicare got off to a confusing start, did Republicans of the mid-1960s wrap their entire political future around a campaign to deny government-run health care to the elderly?

Of course not. But for the entirety of the Obama era, Republicans have consistently been cheerleaders for failure. They rooted for the economic recovery to sputter, for gas prices to spike, the job market to crater, the rescue of the American automobile industry to fall apart

But where were the news conferences, the Fox News alerts, the parading of people who couldn’t get their lifesaving cancer treatments under the old system? Where was the media attention when thousands of people were routinely dumped once they got sick? When did Republicans in Congress hold an oversight hearing on the leading cause of personal bankruptcy — medical debt?

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I think the arc of neoconservatism – from the “States’ Rights” launch of the Reagan campaign on the dead bodies of civil rights workers, through his relentless vilification of government, the dismantling and capture of government regulatory function, the massive upward transfer of wealth and power to the already wealthy and powerful – we’re now seeing its evolution – severe gerrymandering and outright racial disenfranchisement to allow a Neo-Confederate take-over of the House, essentially a new Fort Sumter, a relentless assault on the capacity of government to accomplish anything for its citizens. One might think that Republicans and Teahaddists were nihilists, but rather, they are attempting to dismantle any vestige of government that levels the playing field between have and have-not. They are neo-feudalists, they are plutocrats. Military, police and surveillance activities of government, as long as directed at powerless, poor and working people to enforce their ever-cheaper labor, are A-OK, indeed essential.

I am growing more and more convinced that the Union is in the midst of an existential crisis, an assault on its very being and integrity. I think the tone of the next few elections needs be uninhibited, unvarnished assault on these un-democratic ideals, on these people who would make serfs of us all.

@4 democratic ideals went by the wayside when it was realized by a certain tribe – that tribe that claims to be the real Americans – that those not in their tribe, i.e. blacks, browns, reds and yellows, could use it as a tool to acquire power, and all that we have seen hence has been directed at diminishing the power of them. So I don’t see it so much as a war by the Republicans and Teahaddists against the have nots, since many of them are poor themselves, so much as an effort to eliminate any government support of those whom they see as not belonging to their tribe and therefore those who pose a threat to them, i.e., its a cultural war. The white have-nots are willing to go along with this because, in their minds, they believe that the haves will protect them, even as they work for minimum wage with no health insurance, as many now do in the south. That is why, as I have said, everything that the Republican party does ultimately boils down to race, and as long as they can continue to gin up the fear of them they will continue to wield considerable power.

“A LOT of money was made, and a lot of that ended up in the hands of the GOP and various Republican candidates for office around the country, and they had full knowledge of where it came from.

That is the Conservative movement in a fucking nutshell. Money is the Boss. Money talks. Money talks first and foremost, and if you don’t have money, shut the fuck up or we’ll torture you and kill you to teach you who is Boss. Because if you don’t have any money, you are worthless to them”

Thanks for discovering that and sharing with us. Whenever some appalling abuse of human rights is unconvered and exposed to the light of day, rabidly avaricious conservatives are almost always seen crawling out from under the rocks like vermin.

“I am growing more and more convinced that the Union is in the midst of an existential crisis, an assault on its very being and integrity. I think the tone of the next few elections needs be uninhibited, unvarnished assault on these un-democratic ideals, on these people who would make serfs of us all.”

This crisis is a fact but personally I’m optimistic. The angry caucasian men who form the base and support for the conservative oligarchic order in this country is rapidly shrinking. They are fighting a pitched rear-guard campaign to sustain their privilege but I believe it is doomed to failure. Where we will stumble is in not being prepared to take the reigns as the opportunities present themselves. We must limit any advances they try to make in this drawn-out cold civil war over the next decade.

Well, Eric Rush and Jim Garrow continue their hallucinatory journey into the darkest and most obscure technicolor fogs of history with their demands that Congress act in response to their delusions. I don’t know where this comes from, I’m sure SpittlePuddles will enter the fray with his own take on this, as he’s been nothing if not a complete parallel to these guys.

“The Wall Street Journal printed a column by Suzanne Somers, presenting her as an “expert” on health care, criticizing Obamacare. Because I know when I’m looking for accurate information about out health care system, I always turn to Chrissy from Three’s Company. I mean seriously, she endorsed the Thighmaster. She has to know her stuff,”

@4 “I am growing more and more convinced that the Union is in the midst of an existential crisis, an assault on its very being and integrity.”

Yeah, but so what? Let’s play “what if” here. What if the United States crumbles, and the swath of the North American continent it occupies devolves into a complete collapse of organized human society, what does that lead to? Why, billions and billions of rabbits, that’s what! Is that such a bad thing? Why should anyone be upset if you humans disappear and we rabbits fill your niche in the biosphere? All the other fauna will be happy! We rabbits are a vastly more benign species than you humans. Can’t happen too soon, as far as we’re concerned.

1: You’re irate over the president taking so many vacation days on the taxpayer’s dime (61 thus far), but you thought George W. Bush earned every minute of his leisure time (196 days at the same point in his presidency).

Thanks for snipping that, Darryl. I suppose I shoulda just done it that way myself.

In other news, Paul Crouch has died , suffering from a lifetime of self-indulgence, abuse, grift, flim-flam and chronic colonic irritation. If hell exists, there is a whole new level of it built just for guys like him. He gold plated his business by telling the rubes to send him their grocery money and telling them to mortgage their houses so they could support his luxurious lifestyle.

His particular scam became legendary amongst the Pentacostals, as he was probably one of the most successful at fleecing the illiterate. He wasn’t the first, but he was one of the best. Even Marjoe Gortner was amazed at how successful the man was. The costs of maintaining his wife’s hairstyle alone could have built the National Highway system.

There’ll be no rest in Hell for you, you TeaBagging old swindler. Good fucking riddance.

What OWS Racist Fraggy won’t explain is Bush took most of his vacations on his own or his family property. Obummer disrupted the entire city or surburban area and broke the taxpayer’s back with his or his wifes luxurious extravaganza’s… How much did the American taxpayer pay for lodging on a Bush home vacation?

Why won’t OWS Racist Fraggy compare how many vacations Laura Bush took vs. how many vacations Michelle Obummer took and their total costs? Hmmm…?

Obummer went to Hawaii, France, Hawaii Africa, Hawaii, Martha’s Vineyard, etc. Why not spend time in Chicago…? Afraid of being ________ by his peeps? How many family members did Obummer take on that African vacation? Didn’t Obummer just go to Seattle, and Los Angeles to fund raise and hob nob with rich DUMMOCRETINS? How much did that cost? Obummer is continually campaigning at the taxpayer’s expense.

– You’ve ever tried to prove Jesus was a married man. – You oppose the death penalty, but support abortion. – You support PETA and Green Peace, but still eat beef, fish, lamb, and wear leather garments.

Well written remarks about the Green family’s ACA conscientious objection “stunt”:

“If the Green family’s conscience really forbids them from meeting their legal obligations under the Affordable Care Act, then they have the option to arrange their lives so as not to incur those obligations. They can choose not to run a two billion dollar corporation.

But if they’re not willing to make those sacrifices–if their ‘conscience’ only compels them so far as they can follow it for free–then they are not conscientious objectors.

And they and their fake conscience objection can get the hell off my lawn.”

The Crawford argument is really stupid. Who do you think paid to have a team of CIA analysts fly to Crawford on August 6, 2001 to deliver the daily briefing, “Bin Laden determined to strike in US.”

Every day of the 490 Shrub was “On his Ranch” there was a battalion of D.C. based White House staff getting paid per diem and housed at government expense rather than salaried and in their own homes in D.C.

None of that matters to Piddles. It’s only Mrs. Kenyan that uses tax payer money. Imbecile.

Laura Bush and a group of friends took three vacations together twice taking over a National Park lodge and closing many other parts of the park to the public for them and their security detail. They were transported to those destinations by Air Force 2. But that wouldn’t effect tax-payers.

To sum up, in first five years of office, Laura Bush took 26 foreign trips. Michelle Obama to date has taken 14. Laura Bush’s trips took 116 days worth of lodging for herself, her friends and her staff and security. Michelle Obama 72 days.

You had something to say other than, “I’m sorry I have been PROVEN wrong about my gut feelings about Mrs. Kenyan in Chief.”

The only reason righties care about the travel is you THINK, how dare those imposter’s the Obama’s spend even a dime of tax money when The ONE I worship spent way, way, way, more.

Yesterday, a Metro-North commuter train on the Hudson Line from Poughkeepsie to Grand Central Terminal derailed near Spuyten Duyvil in the Bronx. 4 passengers died, over 60 injured. The MTSB Go Team should be on scene by now.http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/st.....le-9344844

Every day of the 490 Shrub was “On his Ranch” there was a battalion of D.C. based White House staff getting paid per diem and housed at government expense rather than salaried and in their own homes in D.C.

Still waiting for the total tip costs checkmate… You see left worn DUMMOCRETIN web sites would be using that argument on Daily Kooks, Media Moron, DUmmies, etc.

Now why is that checkmate? Cuz they know comparing apples to apples Mrs. Obummer is more expensive so far. Now granted if she stays at home to sooth Obummer’s sad brain over his Obummercare web site you MAY have an argument…

You should keep this around for the unemployed moron ylb whom to this day still doesn’t understand wireless networks. Just search HA DUMMOCRETINS and you’ll find the most hilarious non technical garbage ever delivered from his unemployed fingers on wireless communications.

The thirst for power and possessions knows no limits. In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.

As a former Catholic (K-12, Altar boy, Mass every Sunday, etc), I find these sentiments heartening. With so much of the New Testament focused on the poor, and the overarching message one of love, such sentiments are inescapable, I think. Alas, too often this organization has been, and remains, focused on maintaining the second class citizenship of women and all non-heterosexuals.

I’m sure Pope Francis makes the puddibigot hate Catholics even more than he did before.

Just as the commandment “Thou shalt not kill” sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say “thou shalt not” to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?

Seems he is raising the imperative of economic justice to the same level as “Thou shalt not kill.” That’s big stuff, and it flies right in the face of American Plutocrats and their knuckledragging Teahaddists pawns, like the puddibigot.

Thou Shalt Not Entrap Your Brothers and Sisters in a State of Perpetual Debt-Slavery or Poverty.

It’s hysterical that the puddibigot is still beating the horse that Barack/Michelle spends too much time/money on vacations.

He actually seems to believe that he has made compelling responses to having been handed his head on a plate, above.

*shakes head*

I sometimes wonder if the person playing puddibigot is actually a liberal who is lampooning right-wing idiots, and getting partisans like me astounded and angry at the vicious stupidity and vapid cruelty of the standard-issue right wing positions, as articulated by this profoundly moronic but unfortunately believable sock-puppet, puddy.

This would offer an explanation that didn’t involve someone actually believing all the things written by the character “puddy”, which is somewhat reassuring, in terms of the overall average intelligence of the human race not quite being in the toilet – the latter being an inescapable conclusion of taking “puddy” at face value.

Hey, puddibigot, when are you going to come forth with that positive advocacy for a specific right-wing proposal to solve the nation’s health care challenges?

Remember, you referred to a link that named – in passing only – the Ryan, Price and Broun plans. Can you compare and contrast these? Tell us which you like the best, and why? How would these be better and more successful than the ACA?

Remember, show your work.

I would imagine you’d like the Broun plan, because he seems to believe in fairy tales, too. Broun, a member of the House Science Committee (as was Todd Akin), said this…

“God’s word is true. I’ve come to understand that. All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the big bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell”

Embyology even. Something that has been directly observed for >100 years, in great detail across all species, is a “lie straight from the pit of Hell”?

Somehow, if you add up the fuel costs and the daily security detail he’s clinging to the notion that 14 trips will be more expensive than 26 trips.

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I now suspect that this ‘job’ Piddles brags about is fake. Does Piddles pay for his ightly lodging on every trip. Does he file an expense report? Funny, he seems to think employees of the Federal Government don’t fall under federal labor law regarding work away from home. Piddles is either lying about being employed, has a shitty job with a crooked corporation and is too stupid to know he’s entitled to reimbursement for expenses while forced to be away from home for work purposes, or, and this is the one I’m banking on, is so monumentally ignorant he can’t recognize when one of his ‘facts’ has gone, in Piddles words, “Kaaaaablaaaaamoooooooo!” They have psychotropic drugs for the conditions you display Piddles. I can refer you to a specialist.

“But…but…but…I know in my heart that I need to be outraged about SOMETHING Michelle Obama does because something about her that DEFINITELY isn’t her race so I’m going with travel ’cause, ’cause, ’cause, Bretibart and The Washington Examiner and Fox News have told me to be OUTRAGED and I can’t think without their help!” Puddybud, or words to that effect.

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